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BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
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Christian Meeting, Thaziabad 


Serving 173,000 Indian Christians 


NE hundred seventy-three thousand Indian Christians 

are enrolled in the Christian community of the North- 

west India Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

‘That means that of every three Christians ministered to by 

the Methodist Episcopal Church in India, one is in the North- 

west India Conference; that of every six Christians enrolled 

within the Methodist Episcopal Church throughout the foreign 
mission field, one is within the bounds of this Conference. 

There are more members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 

within the Northwest India Conference than there are in China, 

Japan and Korea combined; or in Europe, Africa and South 


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America combined. And the number of Christians in this ter- 
ritory is growing as perhaps nowhere else in non-Christian 
countries. 

A ScHOOL FOR LEADERS 


When one visualizes this Conference territory with its hun- 
dreds of Christian communities, churches, schools and_ clinics, 
and with its other hundreds of villages and thousands of people 
ready to listen to the Gospel message, one begins to realize some- 
thing of the importance of The Ingraham ‘Training Institute 
opened in 1926 at Ghaziabad, in the very heart of the Con- 
ference. 

It is to become the outstanding school in the Conference 
definitely training boys and young men for places of leadership, 
lay and ministerial, in the life of this growing Christian popula- 
tion. Selected boys from the many central primary schools pass 
through the Community Middle School of The Ingraham ‘Train- 
ing Institute. Graduates of the Middle School may continue 
in any one of four departments: the High School, preparing for 
college; the Vocational School, training men and boys in the 
handicrafts useful in development of the country’s natural 
resources, especially cabinet makers, iron workers, leather workers, 

and mechanics; the 
‘Teacher Training School, 


RELIGIOUS POPULATION preparing others to go 
NORTHWEST INDIA out into the towns and 

Hindus ae ae ee 15,720 520 villages and gather other 
Mohammedans ................ 2,845,251 scores of the neglected 
rawr eevee ee aera Stine children into classes; the 
Fa LE AGRE. | Preacher ‘Training School 


preparing pastors and 
evangelists for the shep- 


Mass Movement Scene 


herding of the Christian flock and for the gathering in and 
instructing of other thousands now awaiting baptism. 

Perhaps few other schools in Methodism have open to them 
so great an opportunity as has The Ingraham ‘Training Institute 
to touch and raise the everyday life of thousands of people 
depressed and held in subjection through the centuries. 


In “Mass MoveMentT”’ AREA 


This Institute and this Conference are in the very heart of 
the great “mass movement” area of India, the area that has 
shown to the world one of the most remarkable religious-social 
miracles of modern times. For the past thirty years large groups 
in a population cf more than 60,000,000 low caste and outcaste 
peoples—the poorest of India’s poor—have turned away from the 
old religions and the old social customs of India, have accepted 


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Christianity, and have been taught some of the principles of life 
exemplified by Christ. 

Almost all of the 173,000 Christians enrolled in the Northwest 
India Conference to-day came from these outcaste villages and 
from the Christian homes of former outcastes. And the process 
of forsaking Hinduism and accepting Christianity en masse 1s 
still going on; each month whole villages are being baptized, and 
trained Indian pastors and teachers are being sent out to preach 
and to teach in these new Christian communities. ‘The pity of 
it is that the supply of trained pastors and teachers is never 
adequate to meet the demands of the villages clamoring for the 
“new light.” 

THE TRAINED INDIAN LEADER 


The desire of the missionary is not to build up in India an 
organization of which he is the head, but rather to train up a 
body of Indian leaders to develop their own indigenous church, 
able and eager to spread the Gospel to the “uttermost parts.” 
The national preacher has the advantages of knowing India’s 
languages and customs and points of view and social inheritances. 
The Indian Christian trained in The Ingraham Training In- 
stitute faces none of the handicaps that beset the missionary and 
he can at once take a place of leadership in the community to 
which he has been sent to minister. 


Wuat A Beogusest MADE PossIBLE 


For many years the need of such a central training institution 
has been apparent to missionaries and Indians of the Northwest 
India Conference. Some attempts have been made in various 
cities to provide instruction in one or more of the departments 
now offered in the Institute. Fifteen years ago plans were made 
for the school. But it was not started until 1925, when under 


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the will of the Rev. 


. High Vocational Teacher Preacher 
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ham, D.D., a mem- 
ber of the Wiscon- Th 
sin Conference, a 
generous bequest to 
the Board of For- 
eign Missions of 
the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church was 
designated by Mrs. 
Ingraham for this 
Centra lomtrainine 
school. It has been 
erected and named 
as a memorial to 
Dr. Ingraham. 
Before the  be- 


quest was made 


about 40 acres of 


land had been purchased at Ghaziabad for the proposed Institute. 
There are to-day dormitory and classroom accommodations com- 
pleted for about one hundred and fifty students, a home for the 
missionary-in-charge, and quarters for the Indian teachers. “The 
first students were admitted to its schools in the early fall of 
1926. 

Boys of the age of ten years are being admitted to the Com- 
munity Middle School of Ingraham Institute. “They have been 
taught in the primary schools. “Chey will remain in the Institute 
until they have reached the age of eighteen to twenty. Some 
will then go on to college, while others will be ready to com- 
mence their life work as teachers, pastors, industrial workers, or 


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A Ghaziabad Madonna 


Pastor ani Layman Confer 
A Leader-to-be 


One Year’s Ministerial Recruits 


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INDIA’S NEED FOR EDUCATION 


“India is the largest country thus far to be 
launched on a serious, definite, progressive plan 
for responsible self-government. She is in the 
midst of the experiment—and experiment it is, 
for her divisions of race, caste, religion, and 
language are wider and deeper than those of any 
other land. Only eighteen millions out of her 
three hundred and seventeen millions can read, 
and the present electorate includes only six 
millions. From the standpoint of nationalism, 
education manifestly is one of India’s greatest 
needs. 


“But from the standpoint of the Kingdom, 
Christian education is of central importance. If 
India is to become a life-center through which 
God can express Himself in creative ways, 
Christian leadership and a Christian society are 
primary essentials. Both of these necess:tate 
the Christian school. Through it Christiars are 
trained to take their places as leaders with the 
Christian ideal in political, social, and moral 
betterment of India. Upon it largely rests the 
development of an educated Christian Church 
able to support the Christian cause by its money 
and efforts.’’—Dr. D. J. Fleming. 


business and professional men. It is expected to develop an 
agricultural farm in connection with the Institute and thus to 
add to India’s scientific knowledge of farming. For farming 
has for centuries been the fundamental basis of her economic life. 

Primarily, however, the Institute aims at the training of young 
men as preachers and teachers in the Christian communities and 
in those villages seeking to learn the Christian way of life. 


ILLITERACY AND POVERTY 


Only ten per cent of India’s population is literate. Illiteracy is 
always found in the greatest proportion among the poorest people; 
that means, in India, among the outcastes and low castes. And 
it has been from these groups that most of the Christians in the 
Northwest India Conference have been received. Consequently, 
if the Indian Christian community is to be literate—and history 
points on many pages to the dangers ahead for Christian teach- 
ings when left in the care of illiterate peoples—the church must 
not only preach but it must teach, beginning with the A B C. 


No SCHOOLS FOR 25,000 


In the Northwest India Conference there are 
thirty thousand Christian children of school age; 
less than five thousand of them are enrolled in 
regular classes. Unless they are taught to read, 
how can they have their full measure of the more 
abundant life? How can they for themselves 
“search the Scriptures’—the right of every Chris- 
tian? The graduate of The Ingraham 
Training Institute who goes into some 
interior village and gathers into classes 
the neglected boys and girls, Christian or 


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otherwise, is more than “teacher” in our American sense. He is 
the spiritual leader of the community, the advisor of adults as 
well as of youth; he conducts Sunday school as well as day school; 
he has weekly evening meetings with men, where Bible stories are 


told and Chris- 


tian songs are 


sung. He truly 
“ministers” to 
the community, 
though he is not 
ordained. 


Twenty  VIL- 

LAGES PER 

PASTOR 

The need for 
preachers in the 
villages is as 
great as the need 
for teachers. To- 
day one man is 
ministering to 
the people of 
from fifteen to 
twenty villages scattered over an area of ten to twenty square 
miles. “Che present force is entirely too small to minister ade- 
quately even to the Christian community. “They cannot hope to 
visit, much less instruct, the many thousands who could be 
gathered into the fold were shepherds sent to them. ‘The Ingra- 
ham Training Institute is dedicated to the task of training min- 
ister-leaders for the village communities of the Northwest India 
Conference. This it will do through its Preacher Training 
School. 


“We've Come to School”’ 


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There should have been during all of 1926 from thirty-five 
to fifty men in training for this Conference. In January, 1925, 
the district training schools for village workers were closed 
because of the great reductions in mission funds. ‘The step was 
taken as a temporary measure. “This condition will be remedied 
by the opening of the Preacher ‘Training School in The Ingraham 
‘Training Institute, if necessary funds are provided through 
scholarships. 

In addition to providing classes and trained instructors for 
these pastors-to-be, it will be necessary to grant scholarships for 
many of them, if they are to have adequate time and opportunity 
for study. Coming as they do from large and poor families, they 
are without funds to finance an eight or ten year course of study. 
Without scholarships many of these potential leaders will have 
to remain in or return to their old village surroundings and 
occupations. 


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SCHOLARSHIPS 
. S has been indicated, scholarships are being sought—they 


may be made as a memorial to some loved one—to provide 

for the training as Christian leaders of young men in ‘The 
Ingraham Training Institute. Other funds providing the salaries 
of instructors in the Institute are also urgently needed. 

$600 will provide the salary of a department head for one year. 

$400 will provide the salary of one teacher for one year. 

$50 will provide a scholarship for a boy in the Middle School 
for one year. 

$70 will provide a scholarship for a boy in the Teacher Train- 
ing School for one year. 

$70 will provide a scholarship for a boy in the Preacher 
‘Training School for one year. 

If it is at all possible, the donor should plan to continue the 
scholarship during a period of years—thus providing the full 
training for one or more boys. Gifts may also be made in halt 
scholarships. 


» Die ee (deboveny: Wehr! TeXcasthecieiwoy Se we ear Aly ve cane 
Board of Foreign Missions, 

Methodist Episcopal, Church, 

150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. 

Gentlemen: For the work of Ingraham ‘Training Institute, 
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EDUCATION FOR LIFE 
By BisHop JOHN W. RoBiNsoNn 


HE task of giving to the boys and young men of India an 

education that will really relate them to the kind of a life 

that opens before them is a difficult one. “The caste system 
that binds the land with shackles of a rigorous custom makes 
manual labor of less dignity than the labor of the clerk or the 
professional man. As a result it is the natural ambition of every 
young man or boy who gets into a school to pass out into a 
professional life. 

As a result of this condition the professions are full, and minor 
city, state and national offices over-crowded. ‘The absolute 
necessity of relating all our boys, except the very brightest, to 
the industrial and agricultural walks of life is a continual problem 
to us. In our attempts to do this we are maintaining vocational 
schools of various kinds. 

Perhaps the largest plan we have in this direction is The 
Ingraham Training Institute, at Ghaziabad, India, made possible 
by the benefactor whose name it bears. While the plant is new, 
indeed hardly yet completed, and while equipment is as yet scant, 
we are planning to open it this year, and from it expect magnif- 
icent results. (Ghaziabad is situated in the very center of the 
great Mass Movement area of the Delhi Area, where we have a 
quarter of a million converts. It is an ideal place. On the plant 
we have about twenty-five acres of agricultural land where the 
boys taught will be given, along with their other studies, such 
instruction as will definitely relate them to the land where their 
ancestors have subsisted for generations. In this institution we 
plan, with such support as we can secure, to care for scores of 
India’s boys and give them those elements of a true education 
that will induce their hearts to feel, their minds to think, and 
their hands to act. 


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BEQUESTS 


A bequest in the will of Dr. 
Robert S. Ingraham made possible 
the establishment of the Training 
Institute bearing his name and 
now ministering to the needs of 
173,000 Christians among 18,000,000 
people in India. 


A bequest in YOUR WILL can 
provide scholarships, a memorial 
school, chapel or hospital, or provide 
some other needed institution in 
India or in any other mission field 
where the Methodist Episcopal 
Church is at work. 


For further information write 


BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH 
Morris W. Ehnes, Treasurer 


150 Fifth Avenue 
New York City 


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